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Pursuing Excellence: Cum Laude inductee and Presentations Managing Editor Nathan Wang ’25 shakes President Rick Commons’ hand.
Students receive Cum Laude title
Senior Takeover: Seniors traveled to the middle school campus after their last class to engage with middle schoolers for the annual senior prank, gathering to watch their peers dive in and play games by the Marshall Center swimming pool and basketball court May 21.
Class of 2025 visits Middle School campus as a part of annual senior prank day tradition
ASiA club hosts screening of movie “Dìdi,” discussion panel with lead actor Izaac Wang
ASiA club hosts screening of movie “Dìdi,” discussion panel with lead actor Izaac Wang
Valedictorian and Salutatorian selected
Valedictorian and Salutatorian selected
Antisemitic markings on Ventura Boulevard
Coast-to-Coast offers summer opportunities at fair
Coast-to-Coast offers summer opportunities at fair
Restaurant Lemonade closes Studio City location
Restaurant Lemonade closes Studio City location
A structure fire broke out internally at 4132 Vanetta Place and spread up the Sunswept hillside to a neighboring four-story building.
What happened at the Sunswept Fire?
Holiday shopping in Sportsmen’s Lodge offers an opportunity to browse stores, buy gifts, and enjoy the wintertime ambience.
Holiday Guide in Los Angeles
Coldwater Canyon Ave. is undergoing maintenance again and is set to finish by November 2025. The street's last roadwork project was in 2023 after a water breakage. Just like with the construction in 2023, the increased traffic and congestion has hindered students' and faculty's commute despite them taking alternate routes.
Roadwork on Coldwater Canyon to finish by 2025
Legacy Redefined
Legacy Redefined
Journey Beyond a Road
Journey Beyond a Road
Too Corepower(ful)
Too Corepower(ful)
Contain the "Crash Out"
Contain the “Crash Out”
Seperate American politics from the Vatican
Seperate American politics from the Vatican
What your university decision says about you
The Unofficial Curriculum Guide 4: A New Hope
Chron-Clave: Selecting New Editors
Chron-Clave: Selecting New Editors
Guest speakers we actually want to see
Guest speakers we actually want to see
Asking for Letters of Recommendation: Your Foolproof Template
Senior Send-Offs
Senior Send-Offs
Naked Truths: Intimacy and Relationships
Naked Truths: Intimacy and Relationships
Illustrated by CJ Phelan
Joining the jam
Catch Me if You Can: Behind the Shoplifting Trend
Catch Me if You Can: Behind the Shoplifting Trend
Academic Pivot: Responses to AP Curriculum Changes
Academic Pivot: Responses to AP Curriculum Changes
Students Present Acting Showcase
Upper School choirs to travel to New York for summer tour
Choral program hosts lunch chapel concert
How students spend summer break
How students spend summer break
Bucket list for seniors
Bucket list for seniors
Printed with Permission of Nic Monroe
Softball sees success in new league
Printed with Permission of Nic Monroe
Wolverines Only: Franklin Wimbish
Printed with Permission of Savvy Mahoney
Wolverines Only: Savvy Mahoney
Seniors Lead Championships Follow
Striker Cole Grossman '25 fights over a ball with a Jurupa Hills defender.
Photo Gallery: Boys soccer brings home first CIF-SS championship in school history
The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle
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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle
English and history teachers attended a speaker event regarding the Holocaust, where they heard from a survivor to better understand how to navigate the subject during classes.

School hosts Holocaust survivor for teachers in student lounge

Alex Reisner, Assistant News Editor
March 19, 2025

Lower School English Department Head Alton Price and Coordinator of Jewish Life and Community Engagement Sarah Rapaport organized a free workshop at the Upper School providing resources and best practices...

Students from both History Bowl teams pose at the National Mall in Washington D.C. On the trip, they competed in the History Bowl Tournament as two teams and in individual competitions, in the National History Bee.

History bowl teams compete at National History Bowl Tournament in Arlington, Virginia

Erin Ryu, Staff Writer
May 14, 2024

History Bowl Club traveled with two teams to Arlington, Virginia to compete for the first time in the 2024 National History Bowl from April 27 to April 28. Although both teams did not make it past the...

Harvard School cadets pose with rifles during the 1923-1924 school year.

War Games: New Marching Orders

Alumni reflect on Harvard School’s military past and the administration’s Vietnam War era decision to remove the Junior ROTC curriculum and affiliation.
Zoe Goor
September 21, 2023

On a sun-drenched morning at the end of the 1960s, as war raged across the Pacific and Beatlemania spread stateside, the Studio City fire department received an unusual call. There had been a brush fire...

A globe to represent the need to learn about multicultural issues.

Bring awareness to global issues

Hannah Shahidi, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
February 10, 2023

The smell of traditional Persian stews fills the air as I sit down for my daily family dinner. Normally, when I sit down to eat, my parents and I exchange small talk and catch up with each other about...

New to Normal: Spotlight on Dr. Sheehy

New to Normal: Spotlight on Dr. Sheehy

Dr. Sheehy and Dr. Stewart spent their first year at the school teaching through Zoom. Now, they reflect on the return to teaching in the classroom.
Fallon Dern
November 20, 2021

   Following a nine year break from teaching and a yearlong substitution teaching history at the Marlborough School, Dr. Peter Sheehy joined the History Department in 2020. Sheehy led his first Advanced...

MESA hosts open forum discussion

Sandra Koretz and Tessa Augsberger
June 1, 2021

The Middle Eastern Student Association (MESA) hosted a discussion with History Teacher Dror Yaron about current events and historical tensions between Israel and Palestine on May 18. Two days later, President...

LA Times Editor of the Editorial Pages speaks to students

Konnie Duan and Natalie Cosgrove
December 12, 2020

LA Times Editorial Page Director Sewell Chan spoke to students in Advanced Placement United States History and Advanced Placement Government over Zoom Nov. 17. History teacher Peter Sheehy (Will ’22,...

History Bowl club prepares for national competition

Konnie Duan
October 29, 2020

Participants of the History Bowl club prepare for the National History Bowl, a buzzer-based history quiz competition for teams of up to six students, in their weekly meetings on Mondays. Questions in...

Peter Sheehy joins History Department

Natalie Cosgrove
August 28, 2020

Peter Sheehy (Will '22, Tate '24) joined the history department this year to teach Advanced Placement United States History and Advanced Placement Government. Sheehy holds a bachelor’s degree in history...

Credit: Lauren Nehorai and Joanna Im/Chronicle

Mapping Representation

Tammer Bagdasarian
October 2, 2019

Last year, Mimi Offor ’21 read hundreds of textbook pages, spent hours upon hours studying for exams and burned through more than a few packs of pencils during her history course, The World and Europe...

Alex Daum ’20 studies Jewish community in Spain

Lauren Cho
August 31, 2019

Latin American and Iberian Studies Fellowship recipient Alex Daum ’20 researched the history and present-day societal status of the Jewish community in Spain by traveling to six different cities: Madrid,...

Two new teachers join school for second semester

Siobhan Harms
January 31, 2019

Conrad Cuda and Jackson Kroopf ’06 joined the Upper School History and Art Departments, respectively, mid-year. Cuda, an upper school football coach, previously taught at John Adams Middle School...

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